Ken Burns peers at the screen and says to his editor, "What's he hiding?" He's at work on a...Gates, David
The film has strong ties to such radio shows and implies that such shows were a popular part of America’s pop culture. Rains plays Victor Grandison, the wealthy host of a popular radio show that features him narrating true crime tales. With his smooth as silk, melodious and at turns ...
It was at Vogue’s historic shoot of theTwelve Beauties, the first group portrait of the popular models of the era, that he met the fabulous woman considered to be the original supermodel who eventually became his wife and muse for 42 years,Lisa Fonssagrives. How can a woman resist a man...
James Peale, the brother of Charles Willson Peale, specialized in miniatures(小画像).His daughter Sarah Miriam Peale was probably the first professional female portrait painter in America. (1) What is the main topic of the passage? [ ] A. The life of Charles Willson Peale. B. Portraits in...
A number of players who later made names for themselves in jazz are present on these sessions: tenor player Plas Johnson, altoist Marshall Royal, trumpeter Art Farmer—and John Coltrane, who adds sax fills to crooner Billy Valentine's "Beer-Drinking Baby." The final cut on this set is Rol...
America is my country and Paris is my hometown. Gertrude Stein “I don’t like reading!” must be the only chorus my two younger teens agree on. They usually bicker like cat and dog yet form a united front on the topic of books, stubbornly glueing their noses to the computer. If it...
On St. Patrick’s Day, The New School and Library of America put on “Kenneth Koch at 100: A Celebration.” The program featured thirteen speakers, all but one of whom knew Koch—that playful and continuously surprising leprechaun of American poetry—rather well. Our fearless leader at this...
più spesso indispettito e sospettoso. L’arrivo della polizia che impedisce a chiunque di uscire fa dilatare la tensione. Dopo il documentario Men on the Bridge e il thriller All of a Sudden, la regista turco-tedesca Asli Özge costruisce un ritratto acuto e paranoico della società, de...